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Its first product is a crispy, plant-based riff on chicken nuggets that is made with just seven ingredients.

Nowadays puts its spin on plant-based nuggets

I’ve long been of the opinion that you can deep fry just about anything to make it edible. But such opinions haven’t stopped KFC and Beyond from entering into a…

After years of pilots, Beyond Meat’s Fried Chicken goes nationwide at KFC

As artificial intelligence continues to weave its way into more enterprise applications, a startup that has built a platform to help businesses, especially non-tech organizations, build more customized AI decision-making…

Peak raises $75M for a platform that helps non-tech companies build AI applications

About a year after Beyond Meat debuted in China on Starbucks’s menu, the Californian plant-based protein company opened a production facility near Shanghai to tap the country’s supply chain resources…

Beyond Meat opens its first production plant in China

Beyond Meat shares soared today on the heels of an announcement that Walmart is beefing up its relationship with the purveyor of meatless protein patties, sausages, and balls. 900 stores…

Investors get a rise out of Walmart’s agreement to stock more Beyond Meat

After tumbling earlier today, Beyond Meat shares are shooting upward on news that the company did indeed collaborate with McDonald’s on its new McPlant vegetarian menu. McDonald’s made waves this…

Beyond Meat shares rise on news that it collaborated with McDonald’s on the McPlant options

McDonald’s is developing what it calls a plant-based platform called the McPlant that will debut in markets around the world early next year, according to a report in USA Today.…

McDonald’s to launch a McPlant vegetarian option

The Not Company, Latin America’s leading contender in the plant-based meat and dairy substitute market, is about to close on an $85 million round of funding that would value it…

The Not Company, a maker of plant-based meat and dairy substitutes in Chile, will soon be worth $250M

From a partnership with the Russian company 3D Bioprinting Solutions to make chicken meat replacement using plant material and lab-cultured chicken cells to an expansion of its Beyond Fried Chicken…

From bioprinting lab-grown meat in Russia to Beyond Meat in the US, KFC is embracing the future of food

Workers at America’s largest companies are not covered under a bill passed by the House of Representatives on Friday that is supposed to support American workers impacted by the spread…

Workers at America’s largest companies are not covered under coronavirus aid package

Alpha Foods, the vegetarian prepared food manufacturer, has raised $28 million in financing for its portfolio of vegetarian burritos, tamales, nuggets, pizzas, burgers, patties and sausages. The Glendale, Calif.-based company…

Alpha Foods raises $28 million for its vegetarian prepared foods

Beyond Meat, the publicly traded producer of plant-based protein replacements for meat, is currently giving other companies in the alternative meat space an education in just how finicky appealing to…

For alternative meat manufacturer Beyond Meat, fast food chains giveth and taketh away

The age of alternative meats is upon us.  Beyond Meat is a $5 billion public company selling burgers in Canadian McDonald’s and American Carl’s Jr., breakfast sausages in Dunkin, and…

What’s beyond Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods in the future of food?

McDonald’s first foray into the plant-based protein patty market in North America is launching today in Canada. The company’s “P.L.T.” (plant, lettuce, and tomato) sandwich, which uses patties from Beyond…

McDonald’s starts selling its Beyond Meat-based “P.L.T.” sandwich in Canada

Kentucky Fried Chicken is going beyond chicken with its latest partnership. As other chicken chains vie for chicken sandwich dominance, KFC is doing its bit for the planet and taking…

Kentucky Fried Chicken goes beyond chicken in partnership with Beyond Meat

Luckin continues to expand at jaw-dropping speed as it announced plans to open shop overseas for the first time. On Monday, the Starbucks challenger from China said it has signed…

China’s coffee upstart Luckin pushes into India and Middle East

China is streets ahead when it comes to digital payments. The latest leap is facial recognition technology that allows a customer to pay by literally flashing a smile. Alibaba’s Ant…

Alibaba debuts ‘smile to pay’ facial recognition payments at KFC in China

Did someone order their chicken extra risky? KFC has alerted members of its Colonel’s Club loyalty system in the U.K. that its website had been targeted and several accounts potentially…

Colonel panic: KFC loyalty club system hacked

After raising $4.5 billion at a $60 billion valuation earlier this year, Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial — which operates the Alipay payments service — is hungry to put some of that…

Primavera, Alibaba’s Ant Financial dunk $460M into KFC owner’s spinout Yum China